Daily walks to watch deer

shei111 · #1 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 07:43 PM

Hello to you all , im relatively new on WAB I live about 5 miles from minsmere, on the east coast. It as been a very wet day here and my husband has been rained off from work so we decided to go on our usual deer walk armed with video cam and bins. We were not out long when we saw our first herd of Red Deer, mostly females looking a bit grey in there winter coats, we managed to get very close to them due to wind direction and underfoot being so wet they didnt hear us on the undergrowth, we were dipping and diving between the evergreen gorse bushes to get as close as we could, we got some good video footage of them, we carried on walking again then we came across a muntjac he spotted us first and made a quick dash in the undergrowth not time to get the video he was gone in a flash. We had about a 2 mile walk and in that time we saw approx 37 deer, 1 muntjac, and it felt like 200 rabbitts. I have lived in the area all my life so I do know where to find the deer on a daily basis ,most exciting in the rut , I could not imagine where else in britain I would rather be its so exciting going for dog walks and not knowing what you may see when out and theres miles of countryside here you can not get bored its lovely .

Wild-Woman · #2 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 07:48 PM

Wow. Lucky you. The sort of walk I would like. And such a wildlife productive part of the UK. If you do it again, would you mind doing some photos for us?
Jules
PS-It's good to have you with us.

shei111 · #3 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 08:11 PM

Hello wild woman Yes sure I will get my husband to take his camera for some pics next time , I like to walk the walk daily but im useless with technology so thats why im the one with the bins around my neck and not the video cam or camera. But it is nice after the walk and you go home sit down near the fire with a nice cuppa and watch the video of the animals youve just seen. bliss.

ron1863 · #4 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 08:17 PM

Hello and welcome

juliejam · #5 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 08:23 PM

Hi there ...welcome to the forum ...Sounds like a wonderful place...You must know how lucky you are having so much wildlife on your door step..Im looking forward to seeing some pic's very soon...Have Fun..

Julie

shei111 · #6 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 08:34 PM

Hello ron 1863 and juliejam Thanks to both of you for welcoming me on the WAB site hopefully we will get to post some piccys for you to look at soon.!!

galanthus · #7 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 09:28 PM

Sounds amazing. I've only ever seen wild deer from the car in fields next to the motorway. As other WABers have said pics wld be fab

Warm welcome type stuff to you.

tigger · #8 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 11:02 PM

Maybe you could put the video footage on Google Video or UTube and give us the link?

Jane

rlchew · #9 (**permalink**) 19-01-2008, 05:17 AM

Hello and welcome to WAB.

I usually do my Red Deer spotting in the Scottish Highlands .... or Richmond Park in London.

I didn't realise there were Red Deer so close to me in Suffolk. Lucky you for having them even closer to home.

Richard

mh68 · #10 (**permalink**) 19-01-2008, 06:32 AM

Great stuff Shei111 and welcome to WaB. I look forward to seeing any pics you get of the deer

I`m off out this morning in search of Roe deer, but I have the feeling I wont see anywhere near 37 of them

Mark H

shei111 · #11 (**permalink**) 19-01-2008, 09:35 AM

Good morning to you all and nany many thanks for making me feel at home on the WAB site. My husband as just gone off to the computer shop to see why we are having problems getting things to work we have so much footage of the rut last year and also the daily walks deer watching. I hope that by the end of today you will be able to have alook. Its very heavy rain in East Anglia this morning so what a good time to sort our computer out !!look forward to talking to you all later . Thanks

shei111 · #12 (**permalink**) 19-01-2008, 09:39 AM

Hi Richew Hope you have a good day out today, no you not too far away from Dunwich/Minsmere/westleton. Have a look on your map , its surprising its all on your doorstep do let me know how today goes for you. catch you later, shei

demicav · #13 (**permalink**) 19-01-2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by shei111

Hello to you all , im relatively new on WAB I live about 5 miles from minsmere, on the east coast. It as been a very wet day here and my husband has been rained off from work so we decided to go on our usual deer walk armed with video cam and bins. We were not out long when we saw our first herd of Red Deer, mostly females looking a bit grey in there winter coats, we managed to get very close to them due to wind direction and underfoot being so wet they didnt hear us on the undergrowth, we were dipping and diving between the evergreen gorse bushes to get as close as we could, we got some good video footage of them, we carried on walking again then we came across a muntjac he spotted us first and made a quick dash in the undergrowth not time to get the video he was gone in a flash. We had about a 2 mile walk and in that time we saw approx 37 deer, 1 muntjac, and it felt like 200 rabbitts. I have lived in the area all my life so I do know where to find the deer on a daily basis ,most exciting in the rut , I could not imagine where else in britain I would rather be its so exciting going for dog walks and not knowing what you may see when out and theres miles of countryside here you can not get bored its lovely .

Sounds wonderful, definately my kind of walk. Course it does help when you know where you are going

. Welcome to WAB by the way.